Appreciate Quote by Jascha Heifetz

“...as a pianist, I can’t say I was always a big fan of contemporary music. The challenge of late Beethoven, or Mozart, or Schubert…

— Leon Fleisher

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony…

— Johannes Brahms

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing…

— Antonio Damasio

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing…

— Michael Hersch

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

— Ken Burns

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear…

— Virginia Graham

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as…

— Tony Williams

I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy…

— Marco Beltrami

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart…

— Ernest Newman

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce